Tribal Business Enterprise Group

• Innovative Financial Transactions
  Drummond Woodsum attorneys have worked on well over $2.5 billion of tribal financings, including many of the leading precedent-setting transactions in Indian Country.  Our lawyers have played a significant role in creating solutions to many of the issues that once prevented tribes from borrowing money and accessing capital markets.  We work extensively with low income housing tax credits, New Markets Tax Credits and other tax-based subsidies.
• Federal Institutions
  Drummond Woodsum has strong working relationships with leading officials in the Department of Interior, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Indian Gaming Commission, and is well-versed in current Indian Law and policy issues.

• Structuring Tribal Businesses
  We are very familiar with the federal, state and tribally-chartered entities that are commonly used for tribal business enterprises, and how they often simplify and expedite business development, while providing important corporate and tax protections.

• Federal Contracting
  We understand qualifying tribal businesses for 8(a) certification under the federal Small Business Act, and can guide tribes in developing the business organization critical to obtaining and successfully performing federal contracts.

Our Indian Country clients can draw upon an interdisciplinary team of Drummond Woodsum attorneys with distinct areas of expertise, bringing to our Indian Law practice the benefit of deep and specialized experience in key areas of the law:

• Labor and employment, including compliance with applicable civil rights laws, personnel management, union labor negotiations and agreements, addressing suspicions or allegations of employee misconduct
• Construction agreements and disputes
• Taxation
• Litigation and alternative dispute resolution

By drawing on the specialized skills of individual attorneys within our various service groups, we promptly respond to the specific needs of each client as they arise, with high caliber legal service and with an eye to the financial realities of the particular transaction or case.